Yes, there are several scholars today both in USA and in Israel who are working on the Jews in the Balearic Islands. I know someone living in Israel who runs a small Institute on the Marranos. She and

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Yes, there are several scholars today both in USA and in Israel who are working on the Jews in the Balearic Islands. I know someone living in Israel who runs a small Institute on the Marranos. She and

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Claude Wachtel asked Seligmann has no connection in meaning with Salomon/Solomon -- though it's not impossible that someone might name a child Seligmann as a "Soundex" for Solomon. It's far more likel

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Claude Wachtel asked Seligmann has no connection in meaning with Salomon/Solomon -- though it's not impossible that someone might name a child Seligmann as a "Soundex" for Solomon. It's far more likel

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Megan Kearns asked: "Rudy" -- increasingly used in America as an actual name -- was originally a nickname (spelled "Rudi" in some languages) for the common central-European name Rudolf/Rudolph. As you

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Megan Kearns asked: "Rudy" -- increasingly used in America as an actual name -- was originally a nickname (spelled "Rudi" in some languages) for the common central-European name Rudolf/Rudolph. As you

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Even though your ancestor's Hebrew name was Yitzchak, the name Szapse does not correspond to Yitzhak (which is Itzik in Yiddish, Isaac in English transliteration). Szapse sounds like a Yiddish abbrevi

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Even though your ancestor's Hebrew name was Yitzchak, the name Szapse does not correspond to Yitzhak (which is Itzik in Yiddish, Isaac in English transliteration). Szapse sounds like a Yiddish abbrevi

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To Mark Michaels. who asked about deciphering a gravestone inscription: It does indeed turn out, as you said, that this man and woman both had fathers whose given name was the biblical name Yequtiel -

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To Mark Michaels. who asked about deciphering a gravestone inscription: It does indeed turn out, as you said, that this man and woman both had fathers whose given name was the biblical name Yequtiel -

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To Mark Michaels About five seconds after sending my attempt at deciphering your tombstone inscription, I suddenly realized that the letters you gave after Rachel's name -- which you had rendered as "

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To Mark Michaels About five seconds after sending my attempt at deciphering your tombstone inscription, I suddenly realized that the letters you gave after Rachel's name -- which you had rendered as "

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Paul FisherAsked First: aleph--beit--yud--nun--vav, hey--yud--kuf--rash, This line is quite straightforward, it spells the Hebrew words "avinu ha-yaqar" meaning "our dear father" daled--vov, vav--rash

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Paul FisherAsked First: aleph--beit--yud--nun--vav, hey--yud--kuf--rash, This line is quite straightforward, it spells the Hebrew words "avinu ha-yaqar" meaning "our dear father" daled--vov, vav--rash

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Donald Brown asked: I found this name very intriguing because it seems to me to have become somehow reversed. Morris (though sometimes a Jewish surname in English-speaking countries today) looks more

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Donald Brown asked: I found this name very intriguing because it seems to me to have become somehow reversed. Morris (though sometimes a Jewish surname in English-speaking countries today) looks more

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Someone wrote to the Digest: The writer generously offered to return this Haggadah to its original family. I wish this was the old family Haggadah for which I myself have been searching -- but alas,.i

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Someone wrote to the Digest: The writer generously offered to return this Haggadah to its original family. I wish this was the old family Haggadah for which I myself have been searching -- but alas,.i

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Beatrice Swart asked: Nothing easier -- especially if this name and date reflect your certain knowledge of the spelling and the year! Simply send these details to the Family Records Centre in London a

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Beatrice Swart asked: Nothing easier -- especially if this name and date reflect your certain knowledge of the spelling and the year! Simply send these details to the Family Records Centre in London a

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